v0.2.0

Second pre-release. Self-contained Windows ZIP (no .NET install needed) with QEMU bundled.

Highlights since v0.1.0

Modern GUI (FluentAvalonia / WinUI 3)

• Sidebar VM cards with colored status pills, an icon action row, and card-based detail sections (Media / Snapshots / Clone / Logs) with a separated danger zone.
• Follows the OS light/dark theme (manual toggle too); Windows 11 Mica backdrop; app icon.

One-click OS catalog — "Get an OS"

• Pick a distro → Boxwright downloads the official ISO, verifies it (SHA-256) with provenance shown, and creates a ready-to-install VM (ISO attached, CD-first boot).
• Ships with Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop & Server and Debian 13 netinst. ISOs stream to a shared cache, so a second VM of the same OS is instant.

Other

• Boxwright.Qmp 0.2.0 on NuGet (no API changes since 0.1.0).
• Manual download/hash test harness (tools/Boxwright.E2E).

Honest notes

• On Windows, QEMU (WHPX) is slower than VMware/VirtualBox — a GUI can't change that.
• Not code-signed yet: SmartScreen may warn → More info → Run anyway.
• To view a running VM, install virt-viewer once (not bundled).
• Catalog: Windows entries, GPG signatures, cloud-init, and a remote catalog are future work; pinned checksums may go stale on distro point releases.

Install (Windows)

Download Boxwright-0.2.0-win-x64.zip, extract anywhere, run Boxwright.App.exe.